JSTOR
Archives the full-text of articles from nearly 300 history journals.

America: History & Life
The definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Provides indexing for 1,700 journals. How to export to RefWorks. Coverage: 1964-present

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, the history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955. How to export to RefWorks

Project Muse
Includes numerous history journals.

Colonial America and Early Republic and Antebellum America: an online general history, including primary sources and references for further reading.

Annals of America
A multi-volume set that includes 3 volumes of documents on the colonial period, and one on the early Republic.

Early American Imprints, entire series
Books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in colonial America and the early republic.

American Periodicals Online Series
This source includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from 1740-1940.

ARTstor
Digital library of over one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. To find U.S. history resources browse by Geography, select United States.

Michigana
Digitized archives documenting the history of the region.

Primary sources (in addition to those listed in the general history guide):

• Colonial charters, grants and related documents (Avalon Project)
• Maps: exploration and discovery (American Memory)
• Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850 (New York Public Library)
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project
• Virtual Jamestown
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
• Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
• France in America (Library of Congress and BNF)
• Gateway to primary sources pertaining to American early history
• Salem Witch Trial Documentary Archive
• Early Canadiana Online
• Early Americas Digital Archive
• Archive of Early American Images
• Indians of the Midwest (Newberry Library)
• The American Constitution - a Documentary Record (Avalon Project)
• Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention (American Memory)
• Founders Online (papers of Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison and Adams)
• Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 (American Memory)
• Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale)
• Colonial Newspapers: KL has a collection of over 20 newspapers from early America dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, available on microcards.

For more sources see:

• History Matters' list of websites relating to colonization and early U.S. history
• Internet History Sourcebooks for Colonial America (Fordham University)

The William and Mary Quarterly. The leading journal in its field. Includes scholarship in history and related disciplines from initial Old World-New World contacts to the early nineteenth century and beyond.

Eighteenth Century Studies. Research on all aspects of 18th century culture.

The Journal of American History. One of the leading scholarly publications in American history.

The American Historical Review. The journal of the American Historical Association covers all fields of history and is the leading scholarly historical publication in the U.S.

The Journal of the Early Republic. Covers the period 1776-1861.

Library Catalog
Use the catalog to find books, videos, recordings, and goverment documents we have at the library.

MelCat
A statewide catalog of many of Michigan's libraries. It allows you to request books at another library be sent to Kresge Library for you.

If we don't have an item, you can request materials be sent to Kresge Library for you:

MeLCat is a catalog of Michigan libraries, where you can place a request.

Illiad is an interlibrary loan system, where you can fill out the details of the materials you want.

The Library has a pathfinder on the American Revolution
See also the general history guide.

Ask a Librarian

• by phone at 248-370-4426
• via chat with reference IM
• via email at Email Us!
• in person in Kresge Library.

Research Consultation
Request an individual session to get help with your research. You can expect the session within 2-3 days.